Senior Consultant - High Performance Computing

Summary

Join Burwood Group as a High-Performance Computing (HPC) Consultant and contribute to cutting-edge research and innovation. You will leverage your expertise in managing HPC resources, preferably within a higher education setting, to enhance our cloud-based HPC offerings and services. Collaborate with Cloud, Data, and Development teams to drive maturity in all aspects of HPC for large-scale distributed cloud-powered computing. Develop strong customer relationships, understanding their needs and technical challenges to optimize their cloud-based HPC environments. This role offers opportunities for professional growth, with potential advancement to Senior Consultant or Technical Architect based on experience and skills. The position is primarily remote, with occasional travel as needed for client projects.

Requirements

• You are motivated by solving technical problems and helping clients achieve their technological goals
• You are collaborative in nature and enjoy working closely with customers and colleagues, understanding challenges, and building technical solutions together
• You are a detail-oriented, enthusiastic learner with the ability to work well as part of a team
• You enjoy problem-solving and workflow challenges
• You have excellent presentation skills, whether that be in-person, over-the-phone or e-mail, with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience in research, academic, or enterprise environments focusing on scientific or engineering applications is highly relevant
• Experience with identifying performance bottlenecks: at a low level, induced by the OS, from software architecture, or in a distributed system
• Demonstrable skills in system administration and the architecture, deployment, and optimization of HPC clusters
• Demonstrated analytical thinking and strong problem-solving abilities with a quantitative focus
• Consistently goal-driven, with a proven ability to meet and exceed performance targets
• Effective in both independent work and collaborative team environments
• Most work is expected to be completed remotely, but you are willing to travel should client project work require on-site activities
• Expert-level Linux/Unix Administration
• Deep knowledge of at least one major workload manager (Slurm highly preferred)
• Hands-on experience with underlying technologies, including high-speed networking and parallel file systems
• Working knowledge of containerization
• Experience working with and configuring GPU environments. TPU is a plus
• Familiarity with CI/CD (GitHub Actions, or Jenkins, etc.)
• Experience with Git/GitHub
• Strong scripting skills working in Python and Bash

Responsibilities

• Supporting clients by designing, implementing, and improving proprietary libraries and machine-learning pipelines
• Leveraging modern computer architecture to improve throughput or reduce costs
• Identifying compute waste and IO bottlenecks and delivering cost-efficient solutions at scale
• Establish relationships with customers, assisting them with technical solutions and solving problems
• Delivering value through project work and exceptional operational support to customers
• Maintaining awareness and leveraging the newest technologies, primarily from Google Cloud Platform, but also AWS

Preferred Qualifications

• Public cloud (Google, Azure, AWS) certifications are a plus
• Hands-on experience supporting research by designing, implementing and improving proprietary libraries and machine-learning pipelines

Benefits

• Generous vacation policy
• 401(k) and Roth 401(k) savings plan, complete with a company match
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Life and accident insurance
• Short and Long-Term Disability coverage
• Mental wellness programs
• Flexible spending accounts for pre-tax healthcare and transit/parking expenses
• Learning opportunities in support of career development
• Access to financial planning expertise